René Vautier Movies

At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives...

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One...

Collectively directed by the members of the Centre audiovisuel d'Alger at Ben Aknoun, the film traces, in two parts, Algeria's recent history,...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences...

This portrait from the "Algerian Filmmakers" collection, created by Linda Tahir-Meriau, focuses on Mohamed Chouikh, born in 1943 in Mostaganem, an...

The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulation of the...

Guided by a letter from an childhood friend, a young man visits places and people from the past marked by history and commitment. He then meets other...

An unemployed Algerian worker leaves Paris by hitchhiking. He soon found himself in Brittany and, seduced by the beauty of wild gorse, eventually...

The first French anti-colonialist film, derived from an assignment in which the director was to document educational activities by the French League...

2039... A third world war on every continent... Isolated in an old building with his partner, a young man refuses to seek shelter during an alert. He...

The owner of a luxurious yacht seduces attractive women to deliver them to a black crew member.

Louis Malle’s meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant.

Documentary edited from testimonies on the torture of people who experienced the war. Some witnesses were tortured by Jean-Marie Le Pen. These...

This rambling political melodrama tells the story of a French Breton who learns about colonialism while teaching native students in France's colonies...

In 1997, the committed filmmaker Jean Asselmeyer, armed with his camera, posed the following question at the General Assembly of Documentary Film in...

Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken...